Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1887-05-14
IMMIGRATION OF 1887.
figures Showing How Fast Europeans
Are Coming to America.
Especial Correspondence.

| are CoInlnB TO ALneElCd.
| Especial Correspondence
NEW YORK, May Q.
ANY hour Of the day that 1 traverse the
streets of lower New York / meet strange
professions, men and women in queer cloth
ing, carrying queer bundles and chattering
in strange languages. They are Italians,
Poles, Bohemians, Russians and more rarely
| Swedes and Irishmen 1t Is the first wave of
that enormous immi grafton which is pronl-
ised-some would say threatered-fOr the
year 1887. Already the arrivals amount to
| 1000 a day. One vessel lately wrecked on
| Long Island had over 1000 Italians aboard
| II the rate is Northumberland the agents tell
US it will be greatly increased-the influx of
Europeans this year will vastly exceed that
of the noted year 1882, when we received 1873. :
o92 immigrants; and there Is every reason to
believe that this year the number will exceed
1,0O0, 600
But the character of the immigration has
greatly changed. Germany now sends us
but one-third as many as she did six or seven
years ago, and Irish immigration, which had
sunk to a low level, and revived little early
in this decade, is now falling of. Ireland and
Germany have disposed of their surplus pop
uiation for the present, and there is room at
home for their increase for few years. The
countries showing an immense increase are
Russia, Austria, Italy and Hungary. These
figures indicate their growth: In 83 Russia
sent us 1871; last year, 23,987. Austrias
contribution has grown from z, 707 TO Is, 772;
Hungary's from Is, 100 to IS, 1856. On the
other hand, Germany sent us 1913, 468 in 80;
in 'SS but 1861, in 'S4 14l ,e22, the next
year 90, Ill and last year only 1909;
and Ireland, which sent So, 768 in 'S3, last
year sent but 36,4l6. OF the newcomers the
Russians present rather the best appearance,
being tall, vigorous and with an air of reso
luton. They are chiefly from the grain
growing regions Of the Black sea and the
Danube, and many Of them are not Russians
in blood, as people of other races have long
been located there. ~
In 1S47 Castle Garden was set apart for i'm
migrants, and system of registration estab-
ished; and thence to April of this year
8, 456, 279 have landed there. The Irish immi-
grafton, which was notable as early as 1880,
reached its maximum in the years following
the famine, and in one year I.early 200, 600
Irishmen landed at American ports And,
strange to say, the immigration to Australia
and Canada was as large in proportion.
Hence these startling effects on the island: In
lS41 Ireland contained S,196,597 people; in
1851, 6,574, 271; in 1871 5, 377, and in 1881,
only STA, S36.
Before our war 1t was a subject of frequent
remark that only 8 per cent. of the immi-
grants settled in the slave states, and it was
only natural to expect that emancipation
would bring change; the foreigner shuns
the competition Of the freedman more than
he did that Of the slave, as only per cent
now go south. Last year 300, Ss7 immigrants
registered their destination, and only 6126
went to the south. Connecticut received s, O23,
Illinois, 25, SOP; Minnesota, 1887; Wisconsin,
9,l45; Pennsylvania, AZ, 103 (many miners
among them), and New York 1O9, 554 Not
only do they go north. but to the extreme
northern belt. OF the 10000 Swedes who
have landed at New York in five years,
three-fourths went directly to the far
northwest; and Of the 81 ,9O5 who registered
their destination last year, seven-elghths
went northwest Of Chicago The census OF
1880 showed that while the center of total
population was nine miles southwest Of Gin
cinnati. the center Of colored population wa.
as far southwest Of Macon and that of for
eign just southwest Of Toledo. That OF 1S9,
is likely to place 1t even north Of that paral
lei, for the Scandinavians go where theil
neighbors and kinsmen have already gone
The immigration from England is singularly
even, varying but little either way from 40
600 year. Last year it was 1926 These
are mostly middle class farmers and artisans
The Scandinavians are very much of the
same class, and the Russians and Austrians
but little poorer; but the Poles, Hungarians
Bohemians and Italians are from the poorest
OF the Door in those lands It is n serious
question how far this sudden addition of
l,0O00 people will affect the labor market;
and, if the influx continues, whether we shall
be shall be able to work them over so fast
into good American citizens
J. II. PARKE.